Monday, November 14, 2005

Oh, and also,

His long, dark face, with a long, straight nose turned up at the end, was diffident -- half-humorously apologetic, as always. The expression befits the artist whose accomplishments have never measured up to his own opinion of his abilities. (This includes all artists worth a damn.) "I have never been more than seventy percent of myself," he once said. "My ambition is to be a hundred percent."